Photobucket now charging $399 for third-party hosted images.

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A few posters who contribute articles and great relevant content to other forums I'm a member of are annoyed at Photobucket now holding their contributions to ransom by demanding $399 for hosted images they've used. I hope imgur and others don't follow suit.

All Photobucket images hosted on third-party sites, at least from what we can tell, are replaced by a dummy image. It reads: Please update your account to enable 3rd party hosting. For important info, please go to www.photobucket.com/P500.

According to some users that we spoke with who are affected by this, this happened without prior notice or any form of warning on Photobucket's part.

Photobucket defines third-party hosting (what is with using 3rd instead of third?) as embedding an image or photo on another website. This includes embedding photos on forums, eBay, Etsy, Craigslist or another other site on the Internet that is not Photobucket.com.

For users who are affected by this, it is important to note that the images are not gone. They are still hosted on Photobucket, and you can actually load them right then and there by right-clicking on them and selecting "open image in new tab" or "open link in new tab" depending on the web browser that you are using. This opens the Photobucket website where the original image is displayed.

The problem right now is however that Photobucket has been used as a host for images for years on many sites on the Internet. And it is not even the case that the site owner can do something about it if other members of the site have embedded photos from Photobucket as the disabling is account linked.

Full article https://www.ghacks.net/2017/06/30/photobucket-now-charges-399-for-third-party-hosted-images/
 
Charging $399/year to host some photos is ridiculous. It's a money grab plain and simple, and they're cashing in on people not knowing about alternative ways of hosting their images.
 
Wow, that's some chutpah! I'm glad I virtually (heh) never used Photobucket when I was looking for images on the web for professional reasons. (I was an early adopter of flickr and so always turned to them first.)
 
I only even put images on there for that exact reason. So no great loss to me, except forums where those images were posted.
 
Today's promises soon becomes yesterday's promises and become history and have nothing to do with today's realities or today's promises.
Former conservative, Australian prime minister, John Howard made heaps of pre election promises and then explained after being elected that there are "core" promises and "non core promises" meaning that the non core promises weren't really promises at all just kind of whistling in the wind. It was little Johnie who prior to election said repeatedly "never ever a GST (General sales tax) " and then introduced the GST once elected. It was also promised that the GST would never ever go past 10%. The present conservative government of Malcom Turnbull has been pushing the states to demand an increase in the rate of tax so that if he is "forced " to increase the GST then it won't be his fault.

I remember when card swiping technology was introduced we were told by the banks that the advantage for retailers would be that they would have their money the next day. Then the banks realized that if they could hold onto the money for a bit they could slosh it around in the short term money market and earn income on retailers money. So income from trading on a Friday didn't actually get paid until the following Tuesday and if there were a long weekend... even better.

I also remember a large market surveying company who began their spiel about why you should help by giving lots of personal information about buying habits and explained that the information would be completely confidential and never shared. A few years on and a change of management that saw the profit in on selling your information and the "confidential" information became a commodity that earned the new management heaps of money.
 
Charging $399/year to host some photos is ridiculous. It's a money grab plain and simple, and they're cashing in on people not knowing about alternative ways of hosting their images.

hugely so, there's a very good chance that they will be strangely the golden goose... hope so.
 
I think photobucket is going under, and this is a cynical last attempt by its controlling investors to extract some money before they shut down for good.
 

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